U.S Immigration 1790 to Present

By Chocolate_Thunder
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    U.S Immigration

  • Naturalization Act of 1790

    Naturalization Act of 1790

    It required for immigrants to have lived in the U.S for 2 years in order to become U.S citizens.
  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    Alien and Sedition Acts

    This was to have immigrants be residents for 14 years and before becoming citizens.
  • Federal Lesgilation

    Federal Lesgilation

    This was the start of rules being made for immigrants for the US ports for Europe.
  • Slaves

    Slaves

    Dred Scott made freed slaves non-citizens
  • Contract Labor Law

    Contract Labor Law

    This allowed recruting of foreign labor.
  • Chineese Exclusion Act

    Chineese Exclusion Act

    This act kept out the chineese from the US for 10 years and kept the chineese that were already here from gaing the right to become a U.S citizen.
  • Immigration Act

    Immigration Act

    An act that immigrants are gonna be under contract
  • Scott Act

    Scott Act

    This act extended the chineese exclusions laws
  • Emergency Quota Law

    Emergency Quota Law

    This law limited the amount of immigrants that are coming into the U.S.

  • Nationality Act

    This act is to see if anyone is an immigrant and to see if anyone is here living in the U.S illegally

  • Bracero Act

    This act was to give money to the states to have money for labor assitance.

  • Intelligence Reform and Terroisim Act

    This Act was used to be passed to increase border patrol and to unify the intelligence and law enforcement.

  • Secure Fence Act

    This act was made to have control over the U.S and mexican border to start keeping out immigrants from coming over.